The Department of Materials Engineering is proud to congratulate our students MaryBeth Pavlick, Daw Gen Lim, Nolan Lantieri and Wanying Li, recipients of 1st place and a prize of $20,000.00, at the 27th Annual Business Plan Competition at Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship. The students put together the winning plan in forming ExDie, a company with a unique transformative technology to remove aluminum from an extrusion die in a safe and rapid manner.

Prof. Dayananda will be opening the Diffusion in Solids & Liquids (DSL) 2014 conference with a plenary lecture entitled "An Overview of Selected Phenomena in Multicomponent Diffusion"

Purdue (Daw Gen Lim, Ding-Wen (Tony) Chung, and R. Edwin García) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Robert Kohler, Johannes Proell, Christopher Scherr, and Wilhelm Pfleging) researchers have demonstrated geometries that maximize power density and suppress chemomechanical stresses.